Mac gamers your time has come! At Apple’s WWDC it’s not everything about iPhone, Leopard or Safari. id Software, a gaming company best known for their Quake fracnhise, unveiled today their new game engine technology, called id Tech 5, which runs on Macs.

id Software's co-founder and technical director, John Carmack, demonstrated id Tech 5 during the keynote address and commented, “Since many developers at id have made the switch to the Mac for their personal use, we decided it was now time to bring our core game technology to OS X. After a rapid bring up of the codebase, we were delighted to find that the latest Macs are the fastest systems in our offices for some of the time consuming processing jobs and will be contributing to our development process in many useful ways.”

Although it was demonstrated on a Mac for the first time, id Tech 5, is not a proprietary gaming engine and it supports also the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. id Software intends to license its engine to other developers and publishers.

As for Games for Macs, Electronic Arts, the biggest publisher in gaming business, announced that some of its best-selling titles such as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Need for Speed Carbon, Battlefield 2142 and Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars will be available for Mac OS X platform starting this summer.

"These four games are just the beginning," said Frank Gibeau, EA's Executive Vice President of Publishing. "We're excited to deliver key EA franchises such as Harry Potter, Madden Football and Need for Speed to Mac gamers."